High Street Heritage Action Zone Project Officer

High Street Heritage Action Zone Project Officer Historic England

Employment Type Full time 24 Months Fixed Term Contract

Location Hybrid Birmingham, UK We offer hybrid working where you will be based in the office and from home

Team Regions - Midlands

Seniority Mid-level

• Closing:11:59pm, 26th Feb 2026 GMT

Perks and benefits

Work from home option

Wellness programs

Employee Assistance Programme

Additional parental leave

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

Paid emergency leave

Sabbatical Opportunities

Mentoring/coaching

Payroll giving

Salary sacrifice

Team social events

Team lunches

Extracurricular clubs

Cycle to work scheme

Candidate happiness

7.99 (9988)

Job Description

Summary

We are the public body that looks after England's historic environment. We champion historic places, helping people understand, value and care for them.

Historic England have a fantastic opportunity for you to join us as our High Street Heritage Action Zone Project Officer.

This is a Full Time, 24 Months Fixed Term Contract based in Birmingham with hybrid working.

We offer a wide benefits package including a competitive defined benefit pension scheme to which we make 28.97% employer contributions, a generous 28 days holiday, corporate discounts, free entry into English Heritage sites across the country and development opportunities to ensure you achieve your goals.

To view our full range of benefits please follow the link here .

What you will be doing

Between 2020 and 2024, Historic England delivered the HSHAZ programme which revitalised the high streets of 67 towns across England.The programme helped create vibrant places and community spaces by investing in building and the public realm, creating new partnerships, empowering communities and celebrating local culture through heritage.

Historic England will now be delivering a new programme in Dudley modelled on HSHAZ, with a focus on demonstrating the role that the historic environment has to play in providing much needed residential accommodation in town centres.The programme will be looking to convert vacant and under-used upper floors in the centre of Dudley for residential use, helping to bring vibrancy and life into the town centre.

The primary purpose of this role is to support the Regional Director, Head of Region and the Regions Leadership to develop, programme manage and deliver the Dudley HSHAZ programme.The role will coordinate delivery of the project, internally and with external stakeholders.

Who we are looking for

Experience of managing budgets.

Experience of evaluation, monitoring and reporting complex projects or programmes.

A proven track record in developing positive and effective working relationships with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.

Please note your application will be scored and assessed against the above criteria.

We are an equal opportunity employer which values diversity and inclusion. If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we would be happy to discuss reasonable adjustments to the job with you. Having won the Gold Award from MIND for workplace wellbeing in seven consecutive years, we also recognise the importance of a healthy work-life balance.

We are an inclusive employer and believe that flexible working options are for everyone. We want to make sure our working arrangements don't prevent anyone from joining us because of their personal circumstances. We also want to provide you with the best balance in your home and work life that we can.

We are open to considering options including job sharing, part-time working, compressed hours working and different working locations, including hybrid working. Please visit our jobs pages or contact us to find out more.

Why work for Historic England

We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity for everyone. Diversity helps us to perform better and attract more people to support our work. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.

We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates and candidates with disabilities as they are underrepresented within Historic England at this level.

Historic England want all of our candidates to shine in the recruitment process. Please tell us what we can do to make sure you can show us your very best self. You can contact us by email at if you have any recruitment queries.

At Historic England we use a hiring system called Applied. Applied is a behavioural science-backed recruitment platform that reduces bias, improves quality of hire and increases diversity. We do not use CV application for the majority of our hiring processes. You will answer a selection of questions that allow our hiring teams to test your skills and suitability for the role.

At Historic England, we value the expertise and individuality each candidate brings and want to hear about this in your own words. If you require the use or AI tools or other resources to support your application, we ask that all information is factually accurate, original, and reflects your own experience. To best represent yourself, we encourage you to write in your own words and use AI-generated content only as inspiration-not as direct input.